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| Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 07:26 PM EDT |
Last week's issue of the New Yorker (West Coast subscription print
edition) has a full-page advert for Siri on the back cover. Someone has asked
Siri "what does poison oak look like?" The iPhone 4S displays an image
captioned "poison oak" which is a photo of (you guessed it) poison ivy.
In fact, it's the public-domain photo of poison ivy from Wikipedia.
Well,
Siri does say "This might answer your question".
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 10:53 PM EDT |
First let's take this all back to it's roots. A reporter on
the Verge apparently had some conversation with a Google
Rep, saying that there would be a patch for devices in the
market already, while Galaxy Nexus devices in the Play Store
were being taken down and updated to Jelly Bean. Which will
take Search completely off the device.
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3136336/galaxy-
nexus-no-longer-available-to-purchase-from-google-play-
website">Galaxy Nexus No Longer on Google Play (updated
story... sort of..</a>
After getting this straight, the reporter then put his own
twist to the story. Stating only that the patch was going to
dumb down Android's Search Widget. In reality that's where
Google was headed in the first place. Taking Search
completely off the device and running like an application in
their Cloud.
What Google has done with Search on Android is stunning. By
pulling all the pieces together they got the first real
truly personal digital assistant living in the Clouds....
not on your device. By harnessing their massive database
servers and the new Knowledge Graph Cloud Database and
Google NOW... Search has a brand new meaning and personality
that's a whole lot more human like in both it's speed and accuracy.
Demonstrated by both iPhone 4s and a Galaxy Nexus with Jelly
Bean did in a 1600 question battle with Google NOW Voice
Search Assistant scored 87% Right to Apple's 63% making it
only a little better than a coin toss for iPhone 4s!
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5922332/google-search-beats-the-
crap-out-of-siri-in-1600-question-test">Google Beats the
Crap Out of Apple Siri</a>
So the truth is that this patch is just a temporary patch
til they can further vet the Jelly Bean Upgrade to all
Galaxy Nexus Smartphone Owners. Keep in mind what Posner
said about Apple's slide to unlock patent. Remember that
it's only this California Court that's allowing Apple to get
away with their lame thermonuclear patents. While Samsung's
Fiona Freeze puts those weapons on ICE! lol...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:18 AM EDT |
I think that patent was issued in 2000 originally. Pretty
much everyone
seems to think it's obvious, but specific
prior art seems thin on the
ground
Does anyone have any opinion about whether this 1998
academic
document would class as prior art for any/all of
the Apple
patent? Personally
I can't read patent texts and get
anything out of them as they seem even more
opaque than the
combination of the law and the tech should indicate
(indicative of quality perhaps...)
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| Authored by: PJ on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 11:08 AM EDT |
| We haven't been following that case, but if someone
could post the patent in
question, can someone who
understands the stuff figure out if
this PDF
reveals prior art regarding Apple's search
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